{"id":338,"date":"2025-06-28T23:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T23:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kalani.llc.washington.edu\/uwlanguages\/?page_id=338"},"modified":"2025-06-29T22:38:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T22:38:39","slug":"alumni-career-stories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kalani.llc.washington.edu\/uwlanguages\/alumni-career-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni &amp; Career Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  class=\"card text-left large lightgold img-right\" style=\"width:100%\">\n<div class=\"image-large\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/kalani.llc.washington.edu\/uwlanguages\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/uwlang_news_all-microsoft.jpg);\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"card-body\">\n<div class=\"inner-card-body\">\n<h2 class=\"card-title\">Ancient Languages, New Technology<\/h2>\n<p>Now a senior program manager at Microsoft, Andrew Glass works on font rendering and text input for Windows. In his personal time, he focuses on Gandhari, an ancient language he first encountered as a doctoral student at the University of Washington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artsci.washington.edu\/news\/2022-01\/ancient-languages-new-technology\" class=\"btn btn-lg arrow white\"><span>Learn more!<\/span><span class=\"arrow-box\"><span class=\"arrow\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div  class=\"card text-left large lightgold img-right\" style=\"width:100%\">\n<div class=\"image-large\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/kalani.llc.washington.edu\/uwlanguages\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/uwlang_news_finnish-translation.jpg);\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"card-body\">\n<div class=\"inner-card-body\">\n<h2 class=\"card-title\">Former Department Ph.D. Graduate Mia Spangenberg&#8217;s Most Recent Translation!<\/h2>\n<p>A graduate of the UW Scandinavian Studies Department, Mia Spangenberg, recently held an event at Third Place Books in Ravenna on June 10th to discuss the recent release of Pirkko Saisio&#8217;s novel &#8216;Backlight&#8217;, which she translated from Finnish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scandinavian.washington.edu\/news\/2025\/05\/27\/former-department-phd-graduate-mia-spangenbergs-most-recent-translation\" class=\"btn btn-lg arrow white\"><span>Learn more!<\/span><span class=\"arrow-box\"><span class=\"arrow\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div  class=\"card text-left large lightgold img-right\" style=\"width:100%\">\n<div class=\"image-large\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/kalani.llc.washington.edu\/uwlanguages\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/uwlang_news_german.jpg);\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"card-body\">\n<div class=\"inner-card-body\">\n<h2 class=\"card-title\">Four UW German Studies PhDs Land Jobs at Colleges<\/h2>\n<p>We&#8217;re immensely proud that all four of our graduating PhDs received offers from excellent colleges and universities across the country this year! We asked how they were doing in their new digs and you can read their replies&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/german.washington.edu\/news\/2024\/11\/04\/four-uw-german-studies-phds-land-jobs-colleges-across-country\" class=\"btn btn-lg arrow white\"><span>Learn more!<\/span><span class=\"arrow-box\"><span class=\"arrow\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-small-hero.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-338","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalani.llc.washington.edu\/uwlanguages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalani.llc.washington.edu\/uwlanguages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalani.llc.washington.edu\/uwlanguages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalani.llc.washington.edu\/uwlanguages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalani.llc.washington.edu\/uwlanguages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/kalani.llc.washington.edu\/uwlanguages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/kalani.llc.washington.edu\/uwlanguages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/338\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalani.llc.washington.edu\/uwlanguages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalani.llc.washington.edu\/uwlanguages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}